Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dive. But when a man goes to the bottom in a flexible diving suit (as he must if he wants to do any work there), he is not sheltered from the pressure of the water, which increases about one pound per square inch for every two feet of descent. The air that he breathes, pumped into his helmet through a tube from the surface, must have pressure enough to keep the water out. Such pressure is not kind to frail human flesh...
Says a Los Angeles news executive: "Frankly. I do think there is a tendency in the press to be tender in handling Negro stories. But we are even more chary in using the word 'Mexican' or 'Mexican-descent.' " Says another Los Angeles editor: "Where we run into the most controversy is when we just give the names of boys involved in East Side gang fights. Then we get complaints from Mexican-American groups. We say: 'Well, we didn't say Mexican.' And their answer is: 'You don't have...
...town with scandal, reported what nobody else would dream of printing, invented what it could not report. Leading the assault from a desk littered with busts of Napoleon was a short (5 ft. 2 in.), lame martinet named Emile Henry Gauvreau, a Connecticut-born newsman of French Canadian-Irish descent. His brilliance as a reporter and editor made him managing editor of the conservative old Hartford Courant at the age of 26. But the Courant was too slow for Gauvreau's new ideas. After it fired him, Macfadden lured him to launch the Graphic...
...assumption that Jews voted for Bob Wagner Sr. in the 1932 election because they were fooled into believing that he was of Jewish descent is an insult to the intelligence of Jewish voters. It is a well-known fact that Wagner won handsomely in "Jewish" districts because of his liberalism in domestic and foreign affairs. Most Jews vote according to their traditional ideals. This is the "Jewish" vote...
...view of the world by his own volition-it is already determined for him by his place in history." No one believes any more in a local heaven or a local hell. "And if this is so, we can no longer accept the story of Christ's descent into hell or his ascension into heaven as literally true. We can no longer look for the return of the Son of Man on the clouds of heaven or hope that the faithful will meet...